{"product_id":"peter-boyle-ideas-of-travel","title":"Peter Boyle, Ideas of Travel","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Late in his career, Boyle has embarked on one of the most sustained flights of inspiration of any writer currently working. The results are luminous.' Declan Fry, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2022-04-02\/best-new-books-to-read-in-april-2022\/100948988\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Best new books to read in April 2022\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eABC\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA path headed off underneath a row of low-lying bushes, below the tangle of old trees, small splashes of yellow paint indicating a direction of sorts, and silvery rays of light revealed a creek moving under the branches. And, for you, behind it all there was this conviction that something would always lead somewhere – as if feeling the sun for one moment on your body wasn’t enough ...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIdeas of Travel \u003c\/em\u003ebuilds in significant ways on Peter Boyle's previous two books, his award-winning \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEnfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings\u003c\/em\u003e. This collection again taps into a deep dreamlike symbolism and directs this to great existential effect. Even staying still we are travelling—across the seasons, across the day, across a life. Written over fourteen months of the pandemic, \u003cem\u003eIdeas of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e subverts the boundaries between the living and the dead, the human and the non-human, ourselves and others. In this sequence of 140 new poems acclaimed poet Peter Boyle examines our sense of what it is to be alive.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e'Peter Boyle is one of the best and most fascinating of Australian poets ...' Martin Duwell\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePeter Boyle is a Sydney-based poet and translator of poetry. He is the author of nine books of poetry, most recently \u003cem\u003eNotes Towards the Dreambook of Endings, Enfolded in the Wings of a Great Darkness\u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2020 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize, and \u003cem\u003eGhostspeaking\u003c\/em\u003e which won the 2017 Kenneth Slessor Prize. In 2017 he was also awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for Excellence in Literature. Other poetry collections by Peter Boyle include \u003cem\u003eTowns in the Great Desert\u003c\/em\u003e (2013), \u003cem\u003eApocrypha\u003c\/em\u003e (2009) which won the Queensland Premier’s Prize and the Judith Wright (ACT) Award, \u003cem\u003eMuseum of Space\u003c\/em\u003e (2004) and \u003cem\u003eThe Blue Cloud of Crying\u003c\/em\u003e (1997) which won the Adelaide Festival Award and the National Book Council (Banjo) Award. Peter Boyle’s poetry has appeared in journals, poetry magazines, ezines and books in the United States, Ireland, the United Kingdom, France, Mexico, Colombia, Nicaragua, Macedonia, Germany, Sweden and China. He has presented his poetry at International Festivals in Colombia, Venezuela, France, Canada, Macedonia, Nicaragua and El Salvador. His poems have been translated into Spanish, French, German, Macedonian, Swedish, Russian, Vietnamese and Chinese. With MTC Cronin he is the author of two collaborative books of poetry: \u003cem\u003eHow Does a Man Who is Dead Re-invent His Body? The Belated Love Poems of Thean Morris Caelli\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWho Was\u003c\/em\u003e. As a translator of poetry from Spanish and French he has had eight books published. His translations of poetry by José Kozer, Marosa di Giorgio, Olga Orozco, Eugenio Montejo and René Char, among others, have appeared in anthologies, magazines and journals in England, the United States and Australia. Recent books as a translator include \u003cem\u003eJasmine for Clementina Médici\u003c\/em\u003e by Marosa di Giorgio and \u003cem\u003ePoems of Olga Orozco, Marosa di Giorgio, Jorge Palma\u003c\/em\u003e (2017), and \u003cem\u003eÍndole\/Of Such A Nature\u003c\/em\u003e by José Kozer. In 2013 Peter received the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for Literary Translation.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\nPeter Boyle, \u003cem\u003eIdeas of Travel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e2022. 148mm x 210mm. 160 pp.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN \u003c\/span\u003e978-1-925735-36-9\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRelease date: March 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Vagabond Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41701622022301,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0182\/8349\/products\/Boyle_IdeasOfTravel_cover2.jpg?v=1640391863","url":"https:\/\/vagabondpress.net\/ko\/products\/peter-boyle-ideas-of-travel","provider":"Vagabond Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}